Leslie Jones might not be the most natural sketch performer Saturday Night Live’s ever had, but she’s arguably the most immediate and personal Weekend Update correspondent ever. As herself—or the on-air version of Leslie which, one suspects, is pretty close to Leslie—Jones showed up one last time in season 44 last…

The “weird Eurovision entry” has been a staple of internet consumption of the annual international song contest for years now, as people around the planet—including non-combatants in the U.S.—wait to see which country fields the most bizarre entry in the yearly competition. Weird Eurovision picks tend to go the…

David Byrne is no stranger to the stage; in addition to obviously theatrical productions like Jonathan Demme’s landmark concert film Stop Making Sense, the former Talking Heads frontman has written music for a number of operas and musicals over the years, including Alex Timbers’ celebrated Here Lies Love. Now he’s…

If there’s a downside to having spent the vast majority of your life embodying a certain ideal of human physicality—as Arnold Schwarzenegger pretty demonstrably has, regardless of your feelings on that particular, hyper-muscular image—it’s that there’s always some dumb motherfucker out there who (to paraphrase the…

Look, we don’t want to get into a whole thing here about whether Keanu Reeves’ super-assassin John Wick could beat The Avengers in a fight. (We’d much rather save that sort of idle internet speculation for our new spec script, John Wick Vs. Dracula 2: Dracula Is Also A Cyborg Now.) But it’s becoming clearer by the…

Lo: Just as Regis begat Meredith, who begat Cedric, who begat Terry, who begat the generically handsome man who’s hosted The Bachelor for the last hundred or so years, the prophecy has finally been fulfilled, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire has been eliminated from the airwaves at last. (The American version, at…

With Sunday’s no-doubt epic (and some-doubt satisfying) Game Of Thrones finale coming at us this Sunday, some people are scrambling to catch up, rewatch, and otherwise cram in preparation. And, sure, it’s theoretically possible to catch up on every single episode, read the A.V. Club’s both expert and newbie reviews,…

Willing into existence a reality in which a single IMDB page must attempt to contain both “Jizz In My Pants” and “the new Chip ‘N Dale movie,” THR reports that Lonely Island favorite Akiva Schaffer has just been tapped as the director of Disney’s long-brewing cinematic adaptation of its beloved Rescue Rangers franchis…

HBO is about to find itself—as of Sunday—with a serious dearth of high-fantasy big-budget literary adaptations on its slate. Which might explain why the network unleashed a new teaser for its Philip Pullman show His Dark Materials today, re-introducing viewers to Dafnee Keen’s resourceful orphan Lyra and the various…

Information continues to trickle out this week about Matt Reeves’ upcoming film The Batman, which is not only bound and determined to exist despite the Bat-agnosticism of Ben Affleck and large swathes of the movie-going public, but which recently made headlines by casting (or coming close to casting, depending on who…

Good news for anyone who’s ever watched Adult Swim’s endlessly profane, relentlessly inventive Rick And Morty and thought “Gosh I wish I could be a quasi-omnipotent super scientist who ignores the emotional needs of the people around him, drinks constantly, and is generally completely immune to the consequences of his…

In a rousing turn of events, Robert Pattinson has reportedly been cast as the newest Batman. And, while that has many people up in arms, it’s not that out of left field nor is it a particularly bad decision. At all. Has he shown that he can make sparkling in the sun look painful and driving a silver Volvo look…

Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s Adult Swim show On Cinema At The Cinema began with a simple premise: The two comedians would review the latest Hollywood releases with tongue-in-cheek seriousness and make hay out of their slightly antagonistic relationship. Since then, the series has become the foundation for a…

You’ll probably be too busy streaming Good Omens, which hits Amazon on May 31, to care much about what’s coming to the streamer in June, but we’d be remiss not to point you towards Chasing Happiness, the definitive chronicle of the newly reunited Jonas Brothers. The documentary is said to go “beyond the headlines and…

David Letterman may be a few years removed from the world of traditional late-night talk shows, but that doesn’t mean he can’t still throw in his two cents about the current state of our crumbling democracy. In an upcoming interview with Today, Letterman, in full guy-just-whittling-by-the-crick cosplay, discusses the…

Official press briefings at the White House and the Pentagon used to happen on a consistent basis, at times even daily. But that was before the Trump administration: Current Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hasn’t held a White House press briefing in an unprecedented 67 days. The Pentagon press briefing is even…

Maybe you’ve gotten a little tired of “Old Town Road,” what with all its remixes and remixes of remixes. Fact of the matter is, however, America simply cannot get enough of taking its horse to the Old Town Road—not even a new single by Taylor Goddamn Swift could bump Lil Nas X from the Billboard Hot 100's top spot. Now…

Stephen King’s 1984 novel The Eyes Of The Dragon is being developed as a pilot at Hulu and, honestly, how the hell did it take this long? It’s not one of King’s most popular properties, having never been adapted for film or TV, but it is a fantasy epic geared toward young audiences, which, when paired with King’s…